'Spitfires Over Berlin' magazine – Warning

I hope Key Publishing are ok with this thread, as the topic is a competitors magazine. If the thread disappears, I understand why.

Just a heads up, chaps/chapesses, about this publication, and a word of caution. During a perusal of the news stand while stocking up on holiday stuff, I scanned the title, ‘Spitfires Over Berlin’ and quickly moved on. Seeing the ‘S’ word, with an ok painting of a Mk XIV confirmed to me that, love it though I do, I did not want to buy a Spitfire Special.

However, I had the chance to scan through a copy on holiday, and realised that the Spitfire heading was there to pull in the punters…the actual content of this magazine comprises of 20 mostly high quality examinations of specific aspects of the late air war in Europe, many of which I had not seen before. In fairness to the publisher, the sub-heading of the mag is ‘The air war in Europe 1945’. My favourite articles so far (there’s a lot to get through) examine test flying the Natter, and the best single seaters of 1945…I never knew that the D-9 was only made because of the shortage of the BMW 801 powerplant; the TA 152 was Tank’s intended replacement for the 190. This ‘best fighter’ article is interesting in that it mostly steers away from fastest speed, longest range etc and, heaven forbid, is actually critical of the P-51, a rare read indeed! There are usually holes in a technical narrative, but I’ve only spotted one major omission so far. So well done Dan Sharp and contributors, and Mortons, I’m impressed!

Key, may I just also say that the September Flypast is also CHOKKA with good articles.